CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2057
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-06-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer before 8 uses the HTTP Host header to determine the context of a document provided in a (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response from a proxy server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script by modifying this CONNECT response, aka an "SSL tampering" attack.
Affected configurations
• microsoft ie 5.0
• microsoft ie 5.22
• microsoft ie 6.0
• microsoft internet explorer 3.0
• microsoft internet explorer 3.0.1
• microsoft internet explorer 3.0.2
• microsoft internet explorer 3.1
• microsoft internet explorer 3.2
• microsoft internet explorer 4.0
• microsoft internet explorer 4.0.1
• microsoft internet explorer 4.01
• microsoft internet explorer 4.1
• microsoft internet explorer 4.5
• microsoft internet explorer 4.40.308
• microsoft internet explorer 4.40.520
• microsoft internet explorer 4.70.1155
• microsoft internet explorer 4.70.1158
• microsoft internet explorer 4.70.1215
• microsoft internet explorer 4.70.1300
• microsoft internet explorer 4.71.544
• microsoft internet explorer 4.71.1008.3
• microsoft internet explorer 4.71.1712.6
• microsoft internet explorer 4.72.2106.8
• microsoft internet explorer 4.72.3110.8
• microsoft internet explorer 4.72.3612.1713
• microsoft internet explorer 5
• microsoft internet explorer 5.0
• microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.0518.10
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.0910.1309
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.2014.0216
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.2314.1003
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.2614.3500
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.2919.800
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.2919.3800
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.2919.6307
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.2920.0000
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.3103.1000
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.3105.0106
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.3314.2101
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.3315.1000
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.3502.1000
• microsoft internet explorer 5.00.3700.1000
• microsoft internet explorer 5.01
• microsoft internet explorer 5.1
• microsoft internet explorer 5.2.3
• microsoft internet explorer 5.5
• microsoft internet explorer 5.50.3825.1300
• microsoft internet explorer 5.50.4030.2400
• microsoft internet explorer 5.50.4134.0600
• microsoft internet explorer 5.50.4308.2900
• microsoft internet explorer 5.50.4522.1800
• microsoft internet explorer 5.50.4807.2300
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0
• microsoft internet explorer 6.00.2462.0000
• microsoft internet explorer 6.00.2479.0006
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0.2600
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0.2800
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0.2800.1106
… and 14 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323 research.microsoft.com
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf Exploit
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323 research.microsoft.com
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf Exploit